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Events on September 10

• 1721 The Peace of Nystad ends the Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia. Russia’s territorial gains in the Baltic region allow it to emerge as a European great power, while Sweden loses geopolitical influence.
• 1846 Elias Howe receives a patent in the USA for his sewing machine.
• 1898 The anarchist Luigi Lucheni stabs Elisabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, known as Sisi, in Geneva.
• 1926 The German delegation enters the Assembly of the League of Nations. This brings the Treaties of Locarno into force.
• 1947 The literary association Group 47 is founded.
• 1952 The Luxembourg Agreement, in which the Federal Republic of Germany commits itself, due to the extermination of Jews during the Nazi era, to global compensation payments to Israel and the Jewish Claims Conference, is signed.
• 1964 The millionth guest worker of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Portuguese Armando Rodrigues de Sá, arrives in Cologne. On his arrival, he receives a moped as a gift.
• 1989 The New Forum, which takes a critical stance toward the East German regime, is founded in East Berlin.
• 1991 Nirvana releases Smells Like Teen Spirit, the first single off the album Nevermind. The song becomes the anthem of a generation and launches the triumphant rise of grunge.
• 2006 The Pirate Party Germany is founded in Berlin.
• 2008 The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator, is put into operation at the CERN research facility near Geneva.
• 2023 Germany wins the 2023 Basketball World Championship against Serbia.

Born on September 10

• 1855 Robert Koldewey, German architect and archaeologist
• 1890 Franz Werfel, Austrian writer and representative of literary Expressionism
• 1892 Arthur Holly Compton, American physicist and Nobel laureate
• 1910 Franz Hengsbach, German cardinal and Bishop of Essen
• 1930 Adolf Endler, German writer, essayist and lyric poet
• 1941 Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, geologist and evolutionary biologist
• 1950 Joe Perry, American musician
• 1960 Bodo Schäfer, German motivational trainer and author
• 1960 Colin Firth, British actor
• 1960 Harald Krassnitzer, Austrian actor

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „10. September“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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